UW's Secular Student Union » Announcements http://students.washington.edu/secular University of Washington's home for students of all flavors. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:53:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 First Meeting of the Year http://students.washington.edu/secular/2008/09/29/first-meeting-of-the-year/ http://students.washington.edu/secular/2008/09/29/first-meeting-of-the-year/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:43:05 +0000 Elizabeth http://students.washington.edu/secular/?p=90 First Meeting of the Year

  • 6:30-8:00pm 
  • HUB 200C

Salutations, my good people.  We’re going to be meeting on Tuesday evenings this quarter.  Our first meeting will be from 6:30-8:30 in HUB 200c (2nd floor, far north end, if I recall correctly).  Come meet new people and have some fun! 

Subsequent meetings will be 5-7 on the 2nd floor of the HUB (we’re bouncing around a little, so check back here for specific rooms each week).

Our first meeting will be mostly a meet and greet, and a discussion of the direction the SSU will be headed in. We’ll also have some brainy games afterward (trivial pursuit, chess, scrabble, etc) to break the ice. Hope to see you all there!

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Available times are:

11:30-12:00

12:30-1:00

1:00-1:30

1:30-2:00

2:00-2:30

Set-up and take-down are accounted for; all you have to do is sit at the table and smile.  (Answering questions as well would be excellent…).  Please, please help out.  Or else I will be sad and cry…or something. :’(

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When: Tuesday, July 29th – 5:00pm-7:00pm
Where: Rendezvous at the Chapel on the Ave (Lutheran Center)

This coming school year is going to be one to remember. Want to help?

We’ll be going over a number of things, including:

- Officers, roles, and other positions
- The group constitution
- Planning events
- Coordinating and deciding how normal weekly meetings will occur
- Darwin Day ‘08
- etc

If you’d like to be involved in the SSU, you will not want to miss this.

Please RSVP Here!

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The Secular Student Union of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA is proud to make the following announcement:
Effective today, June 8, 2007, the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organization (IHEYO) voted unanimously to grant the SSU consultative member status.

This makes the SSU the first and only IHEYO member organization in North America.

This historic event marks the beginning of the American Working Group and the beginning of an extensive effort on the part of IHEYO to expand in North America.

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What is IHEYO?

IHEYO is the youth umbrella organisation for humanist youth (up to 35 years of age) around the world. As youth group related to IHEU, IHEYO has had a long and interrupted history of existence, dating back to the sixties.

In 2000, IHEYO was reactivated. Since then international conferences have been organised and several projects like a yearly internship programme and a worldwide youth humanist database have been executed. Last year, youth representatives coming from 17 humanist organisations constituted IHEYO with By Laws at the international conference in Berlin, September 2003, Germany. They elected an official IHEYO Executive Committee.

IHEYO remains linked to IHEU, the umbrella organisation for more than 90 humanist, skeptic, rationalist, etc. organisations around the world and having formal representation at international bodies like the UN.

IHEYO has developed many contacts and concrete collaborations with humanist (youth) groups and individuals around the world. For more about humanist groups in the world, please go to our worldwide humanist database. It will show you that in many places youth humanism is vibrant and growing!

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What does this mean for SSU members?

Being a member organization for IHEYO grants us a direct connection to the international world of Humanism. We will be able to collaborate with our friends from around the world to advance Humanism and Humanist values, including fighting for church/state separation, providing disaster relief effort, fighting dangerous superstition in 3rd world areas, and any other cause to further humanity.

We are still affiliated with the Secular Student Alliance and CFI On-Campus, and will continue to work with these groups extensively in the future. Our membership with IHEYO will not affect these relationships.

We are now in the planning stages for student Humanist exchange programs, including full student exchange, and a Humanist Sofa network for anyone who would like to travel abroad. We will be included at IHEYO meetings around the world, and will have the opportunity to host leaders from Humanist groups in the United States.


Lars-Petter Helgestad, President of IHEYO

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Austin Dacey is the author of the book “The Secular Conscience” and editor of the magazines “Skeptical Inquirer” and “Free Inquiry”. He also serves as representative of the the Center for Inquiry to the UN. He is coming to the UW campus this Friday to give a talk on the intersection between religion, science, and ethics.

For more information, check out his website:

http://www.austindacey.com/index.html

Date:

Friday, April 4, 2008
Time:

4:30pm – 6:00pm
Location:

Gowen 201
City/Town:

Seattle, WA
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